And like the best gifts, it’s thoughtful, nicely packaged and contains an element of surprise.” -Ottawa Citizen “ The Flame is Leonard Cohen’s parting gift to the world. Words are his old comrades, and see him through to the end.” - The Guardian “Leonard Cohen does not use language to pose, startle or to reinvent. After 10 books of poetry and two novels, it reminds us that the music man who taught the world to scale the chords of Hallelujah still considered writing his first and ultimate vocation.” - Maclean’s Pleased I finished it.“ is…a kaleidoscopic archive, a mix-tape of emotions that reveals Cohen’s fears and vulnerability with an unusually raw candour. The beginning was great, I struggled to push forward in the middle (almost gave up) and couldn’t put down (and loved) the last 20%! Crazy I know. Gee I was so excited to read about this piece of history but for me personally there was way too much fluffy romance and not enough history. Two romances, four wonderful friendships, giving their everything to build a Jewish State.

The bullets were hand made by several of its kibbutz members, which were needed to win the War of Independence in the year 1948.Įvie and Albert, Naomi and Judah are four key members of this underground movement. This is a true piece of history informing its readers about an underground bullet factory on a kibbutz in the city of Rehovot, Israel. Each one prays for a miracle to make it out alive, knowing that nothing in war is ever guaranteed.įrom Paris to Prague, from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, The Wick and The Flame captures the heart and soul of a nation at its birth, seen through the eyes of those who put their lives and hearts on the line to insure its future!įour young heroes, four very different personalities from four very different backgrounds come together at the end of World War 11 with one common goal - to do whatever is necessary in the fight for Israel’s independence.

Danger, death and intrigue swirls around them, but they never waiver from their steadfast belief that they will ultimately be triumphant.

None of them could know what was to happen they need to find a way to hide in plain sight all the while praying not to be exposed or even worse, captured. A young and hopeful group of soldiers come together on a kibbutz outside of Tel Aviv for a most secret mission: the manufacture of bullets to face off against the British for the soul of their infant country. None of them ever expected to fall in love.Īfter the atrocities of the holocaust, it becomes all too clear that the Jewish people need safe homeland.

Four very different people who join a movement to birth a nation with one thing in common. It takes a special kind of hero to stand up against the odds.Įvie and Albert.

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